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Canadian, but I'll give it a go. 1. Like someone else here said, its a matter of having enough people vote for you. If the majority of voters want a Christian point of view, they'll vote a Christian point of view. Democracy is voting for what you want; they aren't actively oppressing. 2. Yes it can happen, but how ofte... | Atheists are an Oppressed Minority in the United States | 1 | 2017-03-05T06:09:47 | 82 | 3 | 4 |
and that the couple agree not to have children Why even have this condition? Do we prevent people with genetic diseases from having kids? For example, should we have laws that a couple with dwarfism should not have kids? That a couple that is deaf should not have kids? These kinds of couples are WAY more likely to prod... | Incest really shouldn't be a problem if it can be reasonably concluded that no power relationship is at play and that the couple agree not to have children | 0 | 2017-01-15T07:24:23 | 57 | 1 | 142 |
Certainly in the age of social media people will live more "public" lives. I put quotes on public because what we show on social media isn't our true selves, it's what we want the world to see. If you think about it, privacy is the other side of the same coin. By keeping things we don't want the world to see private, w... | Concerns of privacy will not exist in the not-too-distant future | 0 | 2017-06-23T20:02:19 | 117 | 5 | null |
Just replying to two points here: objectification isnt even much of an issue outside of eligible would-be suitors, women are not particularly objectified by their mothers, sisters, cousins, female friends, platonic male friends, uninterested colleagues etc You'd think that, but an average woman's family still cares abo... | Objectification is not uniformly a bad thing | 1 | 2016-12-06T13:51:13 | 120 | 8 | 1 |
The damaged ones get the chance to find joy in something after the event. The dead ones don't. | I don't think killing someone is worse than severely damaging them (physically, emotionally, sexually, etc). CMV | 0 | 2013-10-06T14:41:38 | 72 | 2 | 1 |
There seems to be a fundamental misconception here. The two alternatives you present are A) You live your life yourself, or B) You force someone else to live it. This is a false dichotomy. By the very nature of it being *your* life, there is no one else who could live it, as that person would be you (and therefore no c... | Complete Dissociation from Self. | 0 | 2015-10-20T22:16:07 | 49 | 2 | 1 |
Let's say I open a business and need to hire 100 employees. The fact that car exist allows me to hire people from a much larger geographical area (because my potential employees can car-commute). This is an obvious benefit to me because now I have access to better pool of talent to chose from. | Cars make the quality of life of (almost) everyone worse, except for the actual user. | 1 | 2016-02-15T15:09:18 | 120 | 3 | 101 |
he was the least influential and least "Sith" out of everyone Sure, hunting down and eliminating nearly every Jedi in the galaxy wasn't influential at all.... | Darth Vader wasn't a good Sith lord whatsoever | 1 | 2015-06-09T19:04:08 | 32 | 6 | 16Δ |
I don't think anybody could possibly get turned on by murder I could be wrong though. There is an entire genre of fetish pornography known as "ero-guro" which consists entirely of gore, dismemberment, and other types of gruesome murder fantasies. If the fantasy exists, then taking sexual pleasure in the actual act itse... | I belive that men over the age of 30 who have sex with a minor should be castrated. | 1 | 2014-07-06T04:45:50 | 26 | 9 | 8 |
I'm not going to say you should drink, honestly it's nobody's business whether you do and if you're fine without it good for you. I will say a few things about your reasons for not drinking: -It is possible to drink without the disinhibitions and dependencies you're describing, at least for most people. You've seen peo... | I have no desire to drink alcohol or partake in its associated culture, even at legal age. | 0 | 2015-01-18T18:56:54 | 446 | 40 | null |
As someone that grew up in America and only really speaks English... English sucks. It's a gazillion times harder to learn than it should be. I don't think we necessarily want an official language. But if we did, it should be a language that fixes the following problems: 1. Knowing how a word is spelled does not mean t... | English should be the official language of The U.S.A. | 0 | 2014-09-13T23:11:44 | 63 | 1 | null |
if someone brings their baby and it either starts making cooing noises or starts crying *and the parent either does nothing or tries to get the baby to stop crying while still in the theater instead of taking it outside* So this is the real problem. The part about babies is a red herring - if *anyone* is being disrupti... | I believe people should not be allowed to bring babies in a movie theater except if it's a special "everybody can bring their babies" showing/theater. CMV | 0 | 2013-04-13T16:38:00 | 133 | 86 | 2 |
1) Except when they do spring a leak. Calzones have a weak spot all around one side where the seam is. 2) Calzones take bloody forever to cool and there is no way to tell just how hot the middle is without just biting into it and hoping you don't get burnt (I always get burnt). 4) The bread is not as good as pizza crus... | I think Benn Wyatt is right that calzones are superior to Pizza in almost every way. | 0 | 2014-09-11T01:35:06 | 57 | 1 | 5 |
I think the key phrase here is "Our political system doesn't serve us half as well **as it could.**" It's completely understandable to feel animosity towards our current leaders, especially as we finish off a particularly ugly election. It's easy to feel like the system we've designed has been usurped by powerful peopl... | our political system doesnt serve us half as well as it could, and it needs a fundamental overhaul. | 0 | 2016-11-08T16:25:34 | 82 | 3 | null |
If you're trying to cut down on snacking, it can help to have a snack that slows you down. | Sunflower seeds are not worth eating | 1 | 2016-05-11T01:42:41 | 23 | 10 | 10 |
They can get in line for a stall, but they have to wait for women who take longer to pee. Making it worse for dudes. They urinal line would assuredly go faster than the stall line, but slower than a men's room line now. And I have no argument for why pooping dudes is worse... it's just... aren't they? I've never seen o... | All toilets should be unisex. | 1 | 2017-02-21T01:41:56 | 188 | 11 | 5 |
All people have biases. That's how people work. All white people have them. All Chinese people have them. All black people have the. Humans create bias. We see things through this lens of bias. But, this inherent bias doesn't mean that all people are racist since people can take actions against their own levels of ... | All white people are closet racists/biases. | 1 | 2016-02-28T03:13:36 | 52 | 4 | 53 |
Marriage as a word comes from the Middle english word mariage, which according to sources from Wikipedia, comes from around 1200-1300 CE. Word comes from another Old French word then to a Latin word marītāre, which describes a husband and wife. Adding on top of that, many modern religions using the word to describe the... | Marriage is between one man and one woman, because Marriage is intrinsically religious. The word Marriage should be removed from Government and changed to something around "Civil Union". | 0 | 2015-07-15T23:49:39 | 51 | 0 | 59 |
Beyond the fact that you already know that your view is wrong and that you're using us all as a mirror, here goes :) 1. Alcohol is a depressant. You sound depressed. 2. Alcohol combined with Lyme's disease combined with anti-biotics is as likely to result in the opposite of bringing back your lifestyle. It's likely to ... | I should drink at my friends wedding next weekend | 1 | 2017-01-06T19:58:05 | 40 | 1 | 54 |
In addition to some other great answers, I'd like to point out that, even though you didn't enjoy Brave New World when you first read it, later on it made sense to you. If you were never forced to read it in high school, would you ever have done so? Maybe not. | I think forcing kids to read classic novels in high school is counterproductive and turns people off reading again in the future. CMV. | 1 | 2014-01-25T03:42:52 | 338 | 17 | null |
There's a difference between prudence, causation, ethics, and justice. It's prudent to lock your door because there's a direct relationship between a locked door and the meaningful ability to access your stuff. It would still be unethical and unjust for someone to take your stuff and for us, society, to pin the blame o... | It is the victims responsibility to ensure they are not raped, just the same as stolen from, drugged, or murdered. | 1 | 2015-04-08T18:33:48 | 28 | 4 | 66Δ |
I think fear of genocide might be a reason. That sounds silly, but you have to imagine that those tests will be made by the people in power. This means that the tests can be created to be biased in certain directions. For example, let's take an imaginary Christian Theocracy. Everyone that wants children needs to do a... | Parents who want to conceive should have to take the same tests as those who want to adopt. | 0 | 2015-01-23T19:24:37 | 252 | 84 | 2 |
I grew up in a town that used Town Meeting. Any resident eligible to vote could show up and act as the town's legislature at designated times. Anyone can propose things, argue things, propose amendments, and vote. It really doesn't get more direct, and is fairly common in New England. But there are several huge problem... | I believe in the elimination of the American Republic and the expansion of direct democracy. CMV | 0 | 2013-06-20T03:34:00 | 35 | 1 | 5 |
All sports require some sort of judge. In soccer, most of the rules are written with the phrase "If, in the opinion of the referee...". In stuff like shooting, the high level competitions like the Olympics do use a computer scoring system, but there are judges overseeing it that can overrule any score that they see fit... | We should remove from the Olympics sports that require judge(s) to declare a winner | 0 | 2016-02-04T17:03:46 | 149 | 47 | 53 |
Well if people like you exist, and people like the men who dress up sexually as women exist, then who's to say that someone *can't* move one step further and feel comfortable existing as both, depending on the day? What makes that idea crazy, but the notion of switching between day and night perfectly reasonable? Drag ... | Genderfluidity isn't a thing and is usually related to attention seeking/ being psychologically unstable or just being undecisive trans | 1 | 2016-09-04T15:37:32 | 473 | 17 | 1 |
(Sorry if this double-posts, I got an error the first time I tried to submit it). I'm not sure. What is rational fiction? I hear that word today for the first time. It's a pretty niche genre; I recommend checking out /r/Rational if you'd be interested in learning more. That group defines rational fiction as having the... | "The Lord of the Rings" is a great example of how not to write a story. | 1 | 2017-02-24T00:29:38 | 120 | 2 | 18 |
I'll give you an argument that is not general and does not affect you particularly, but it is my experience and maybe you could consider it. I am not a native English speaker. As such, I count *affect* the noun, *affect* the verb, *effect* the noun and *effect* the verb as four different words ─ because I have four dif... | English speakers should stop using either "affect" or "effect". | 0 | 2017-01-14T02:27:48 | 36 | 2 | null |
I'm going to approach this the literal manner, I don't think the terrorist have won. They have not achieved their stated aims. Moreover, terrorist don't really care about our rights and privacy being crushed. Despite the claims that terrorist hate us because our freedoms, terrorist have other things in mind. But we ta... | The terrorists have won. | 0 | 2016-01-08T00:23:28 | 155 | 3 | null |
In order to award a delta the exclamation point has to come before the delta | The Hijab oppresses/is unnecessary for women | 1 | 2017-02-26T04:44:03 | 55 | 1 | 27 |
If the world was more intolerant today, then racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, would still be widely accepted and agreed upon today, not the opposite. Even if you think it's "forced tolerance" by laws that prevent discrimination, it's still tolerance, period. I think you may be seeing more intolerant people on the inter... | The world has become more intolerant today | 0 | 2016-06-28T17:19:32 | 66 | 1 | null |
In every groups or movement, you'll find unreasonable people, put you shouldn't generalize everyone else because of them. I don't care that much because I'm not American, but if you would ask me if I'm pro or anti vaccines, I would say I'm pro. If you would ask me if every parents should vaccinate their children, I wou... | The Anti-Anti-Vaccination brigade on the internet is stupider than the Anti-Vaccination movement. | 0 | 2015-03-02T04:51:52 | 54 | 1 | 11 |
1. I have quite a few Right-leaning friends who said there was no way they were going to see another Clinton in the White House. And that's my fault? Sounds like their problem. They say they were disgusted with Bill's extra-marital affairs So they are more upset that a female candidate's husband is a cheater than if ... | The "left" is also culpable for Trump getting elected. | 0 | 2017-02-12T09:37:53 | 135 | 1 | 33 |
And you dodged the question. How is your proposal better than simply cutting the tax *rate* if the goal is to reduce the tax burden on individuals. | In the US, corporations pay taxes on profit, while individuals pay taxes on revenue. Individuals should also pay taxes on profit. | 1 | 2015-09-07T19:02:32 | 91 | 3 | 11 |
You're right. The main reason incest and polygamy are banned and not codified in law is because only the elite are allowed to partake in those two kinds of relationships. The gov doesn't want polygamy among normal citizens because it allows people to build tribes that contend with Gov powers. Look at how much power the... | People who use the traditional arguments to support Gay marriage should also support every other form of forbidden marriage. | 0 | 2016-12-29T21:31:51 | 209 | 1 | null |
Sorry I don't really know how this subreddit works or if you guys will see this but your comments and especially TheMeepityMeep's have successfully changed my view. What the user said made complete sense, especially with the roof analogy. From that perspective, eating habits are a choice but I didn't factor in that not... | I have no sympathy for most people with eating disorders because eating disorders are a choice. | 0 | 2015-11-13T20:10:40 | 16 | 2 | null |
I can just speak for myself here, I want a biological son because I'm the last living male heir of my lineage. I know it doesn't make a ton of sense but I just want my Y chromosome to keep on keeping on. It's almost akin to my survival instinct. I also know in my heart of hearts I would grow to resent someone else's ki... | It's egoistic if you want children but are unwilling to adopt. | 1 | 2017-06-28T18:02:37 | 82 | 1 | 4 |
I think you have to follow up the statement of paid too much with the question "by whom" If people did not give their money freely to attend sporting events and if advertising revenue wasn't as high as it is then yes I would agree with you but people are not forced to watch sports or support these athletes financially ... | I think sports stars are paid far too much | 1 | 2017-05-16T06:50:37 | 39 | 12 | 1 |
Based on your story, I think your claim is a bit strong. First, you need to qualify it with "The religious people I work with ..." Second, do you honestly think they are *incapable* of logical thought? Surely its possible that they just haven't learned about basic logic and various logical fallacies. These things can b... | I think religious people are incapable of logical thought, CMV | 0 | 2013-12-04T23:19:02 | 83 | 3 | 7 |
If the problem is resolved through a surgical procedure to the body can you really claim that it is psychological disorder? The very fact that resolution is achieved in the physical seems ample evidence that your position is wrong. | Transgendered people still should be considered as having a psychological disorder. | 0 | 2017-01-21T20:48:49 | 133 | 6 | 54 |
*Inefficiency* is the problem. There's plenty of clean energy available to meet the needs of the world population, and with clean energy you can get the other resources you need. Clean energy comes from many places, but nuclear power could supply a huge amount of power. But we're not using nuclear power because it's da... | Overpopulation is the root cause of all other environmental crises currently affecting our biosphere. | 1 | 2017-04-08T19:28:57 | 36 | 1 | null |
The animals - especially endangered ones - can be cared for This is true and useful. But only a tiny percentage of animals in zoos are endangered. Also, *keeping them in zoos* renders them unable to live in the wild. A far more effective, long term method of preserving endangered species is to protect the wildlife in w... | Zoos can be ethical | 1 | 2015-08-07T20:42:13 | 100 | 14 | 31 |
In response to the Mexican food picture, you can definitely respond in other ways. The person is saying that eating Mexican food is disrespectful to their culture, and that it's not meant for non-Mexican people. The first is a matter of their definition of "disrespect"--participation in another culture is not inherentl... | "you're too sensitive" is a legitimate viewpoint. | 0 | 2016-04-28T06:01:50 | 36 | 1 | null |
What I like about it is that if it's cold you can take a hot shower and feel better and energised. Your hair is wet though and you can catch a cold when you go outside. This is the main reason I like taking showers in the morning. When I get in the shower I am barely awake, but by the time I get out of the shower I am ... | Evening showers are better than morning showers | 0 | 2014-09-10T23:38:55 | 68 | 1 | 28 |
Men and women are biologically different. If anything, trying to force them into thinking they're not is worse than letting them be what they are. It's like foisting a religious view. It goes totally against science but you do it, because not doing so makes you all kinds of uneasy. If anything it's just demeaning to wo... | Promoting 'manliness', or 'being a man', is outdated, encourages prejudice, and is demeaning to both genders. | 0 | 2014-08-01T15:25:16 | 113 | 2 | null |
I guess there's a few things to think about. First, if everyone were completely selfish, then society as it is wouldn't exist. I doubt that, too, are completely selfish - you would need only *care* for a single person to not be completely selfish, whether it be a friend, a family member, or someone else. The second thi... | My life belongs to me, and others can not lay claim to what I do with my life or my time living. | 0 | 2014-06-27T05:29:44 | 92 | 2 | 6 |
I think "dishonest" is a mischaracterization. It's a *tactic* of deciding how to frame an argument to best thwart the intentions of the enemy. The basic fundamental principle of terrorist tactics is that they desire to pit their targets against the moderate members of a group they belong to. Terrorists want the U.S. to... | Separating Islam from Muslims in Discussions About Terrorism is Dishonest | 1 | 2016-06-14T08:48:43 | 147 | 52 | 174 |
I thought SAO was fairly enjoyable and I quite liked the first 3 or so episodes, but "one of the best of all time" is a high bar to set. So I'll add to your arguments against to explain why I think the story is weak (I'd do a con of your writing pro but my issue has nothing to do with the pacing). Essentially pretty mu... | Sword Art Online is one of the best Anime of All Time [SPOILERS] | 1 | 2015-07-06T18:32:09 | 47 | 5 | 9 |
You said that you still want to hear arguments about why linguistic prescription is important? I would say it's important for a similar reason that vaccines are just as important as the cure to a disease. If you can prevent problems now, you can stop them from surfacing later. For example, if I wrote the sentence: Thei... | grammar is immoral | 0 | 2016-01-28T03:14:45 | 45 | 1 | null |
A potential issue I see is that while Pence is awful, he lacks the sort of obvious repugnance Trump possesses that is leading to such a considerable backlash from the left. With Trump out of the way, the leftist resistance against the GOP will likely lessen considerably, leading to far more of the disastrous levels of ... | Impeachment or removal of Donald Trump from office would have no downside and really would be best for everyone. | 1 | 2017-02-04T18:22:52 | 79 | 17 | 7 |
This is mainly based on my personal experience having grown up in a French family and I'm also not sure if you mean the specific dishes and techniques of cooking or food culture in France in general; I'll talk about the culture: With globalization it is now harder to see the real contributions of individual societies, ... | French food is overrated and I find it uninspiring | 0 | 2015-01-30T20:08:39 | 172 | 6 | null |
But most of us don't and we shouldn't have to if we plan it right and get paid decent wages. A person can only receive "decent wages" if they are worth that to their employer. If you think you can make more as a free-lancer, then you should quit your job. If the companies themselves can't do it by reducing executive's... | I believe people should be able to retire by the time they are 62 years old, and that their employers should be paying them well enough to do so. CMV | 1 | 2014-02-11T21:50:35 | 127 | 2 | 17 |
I get what you're saying, but why is this not the viewpoint of any present-day nationalists? It was in the 90's and somewhat in the 00's, but maybe the OP qualifier "in today's world" has something to it. Polarization has made it hard for centrists to compete for attention. I think there are many voters that fit the de... | Nationalism in today's world is nothing more than an ideology of "Screw you, I got mine". | 1 | 2017-05-08T03:54:27 | 54 | 5 | 1 |
Unless you are talking about limitations to a person's physical survival, the difference between hot and cold is purely a matter of taste. Some people just have different levels of comfort, there is nothing objective about that. It isn't going to be a logical conclusion for every individual. Some people are going to pr... | Dealing with the cold is preferable to dealing with the heat | 1 | 2015-11-03T00:29:11 | 223 | 19 | 2 |
scat play is undeniably unhealthy and goes against basic human evolutionary tendencies to avoid ingesting solid waste That's actually not so bad when it's your *own* shit (or even your partner's). The real problem comes from contamination. You're not going to catch cholera from your own waste; you *can* catch it from t... | dangerous and unhealthy sexual behaviours should not be condoned or defended by "kink positive" groups [mildly NSFW] | 1 | 2016-08-30T05:52:47 | 184 | 19 | 8 |
Your premise is off - he chose to go into the public spotlight when he decided to escalate the situation into the court of public opinion by throwing a toddler-like tantrum rather than handling it like an adult. United was in the wrong, but that doesn't excuse how he handled the situation. Had he gotten off peacefully... | A man who didn't asked to be victimized, should not have his past brought into the public spotlight | 1 | 2017-04-12T17:05:31 | 592 | 8 | 1 |
I think this one is completely a preference and convenience. I know for me I like charcoal or even just wood coals as it's easier to clean and simply a funner and more gratifying process. The taste thing is probably bullshit and I'm not even sure which is more expensive. But ease of use, convenience, and temperature ob... | Propane is better than Charcoal for grilling. | 0 | 2014-05-14T05:06:35 | 73 | 1 | 1 |
I hate to use anecdotal evidence, but my best friend used to be a girl (I'm a guy). For me and her it was more the opposite of how you seem to describe it; we were kind of friends, we dated for a very brief period of time, and then mutually broke up and ultimately became extremely good friends. We would talk basically ... | Girls and guys can't be BEST friends | 0 | 2014-11-25T07:44:47 | 60 | 14 | 26 |
From your responses it appears your CMV is closer to "recreational pot use has no positive benefits", rather than what the consequence of that would be for its legal status. So how about this: Cannabis helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and ... | Legalizing pot for recreational purposes brings no benefit to our society. | 1 | 2016-08-30T22:28:32 | 123 | 15 | 6 |
I have pics of her and I want to revenge. Do yourself a favor and delete them. Seriously, the last thing you want is to be in a bad mood and then open your phone and then accidentally see a picture of the ex you're unhappy about leaving. Especially if you're tempted to do something like this to her. If she's a gold dig... | I want to post revenge p0rn of my last ex-girlfriend. | 0 | 2017-01-11T05:34:37 | 49 | 6 | 7 |
Damn you literally just made up a bogus analogy and then accused me of making a statement. There are different types of experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment Edit: I feel like you're saying "We can't do an experiment to see if aspirin helps headaches because people can just get aspirin on their own outs... | We cannot be 50 states of 50 experiments because we cannot control for cross state movements. | 1 | 2016-01-30T02:44:19 | 58 | 2 | 23 |
EDIT: THIS IS NOT ABOUT SEXUAL ATTRACTION. This is mostly about sexual attraction. If you aren't attracted to X, regardless of the reason, why would you want to waste your time dealing with X? The point of dating sites are to find someone you're attracted to, and date. They are not to examine your potential reasons for... | Publicly stating you aren't interested in hearing from minority groups in online dating profiles is racist. | 0 | 2014-07-03T19:59:03 | 83 | 1 | null |
The issue with UBI is that over longer periods of time, it can become problematic. For people who lose jobs to machines, it is difficult, if not infeasible, to enter a new industry. UBI ensures that they can continue to live. Here, UBI basically works as unemployment insurance. However, the UBI need to be funded with ... | Implementing a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is crucial for the future of our country. | 0 | 2016-01-31T22:08:14 | 631 | 1 | null |
Speaking as a fellow atheist, just because you believe Jesus Christ didn't do all those ridiculous miracles doesn't mean that 'Jesus didn't exist'. When talking about the 'historical Jesus', people are referring to the person 'Jesus was based on' that you mention. Of course the story of Jesus would grow and expand over... | I don't think Jesus was an actual, historical person. | 0 | 2015-08-26T22:05:17 | 85 | 3 | null |
Okay, as far as "Superman should just beat the shit out of Joker every time he escapes" goes, I don't have much of a response. Except, Superman is generally a more reactionary hero than Batman, and doesn't seem to keep tabs on all the villians at large. And I can imagine Joker escaping at a time when Superman is busy f... | Batman would be an astronomically better character if he didn't exist within the context of the DC universe, CMV | 1 | 2014-02-18T22:42:19 | 166 | 241 | 7 |
While some of the popularity of Trump and the leave campaign is due to intolerence it's hard to generalise this. Many politcal parties that are gaining momentum seem to be doing so for many reasons but the main one is that they are different. In the UK I think one problem is that for a long time the way you treated dif... | The world has become more intolerant today | 1 | 2016-06-28T14:29:07 | 66 | 4 | 5 |
I didn't make it through all the comments yet, so this may have already been addressed... Custody isn't a female privilege anymore. Many (possibly most) have gender neutral custody laws, and the starting assumption now is usually 50/50 (outside of the "tender years", during which mothers do get awarded more custodial t... | There exists a large percentage women who want a standing double standard, where they receive full equality with men but still enjoy cultural "privileges" that they have classically enjoyed as part of male dominated culture. | 0 | 2016-02-28T07:28:44 | 704 | 1 | null |
If taxes are theft then so is you living in a society. Society provides you with protection of your property. It shields you from foreign attackers who'd like to steal your stuff and your land. It protects you from being killed, robbed and raped. In that order. You enjoy all those benefits from society, but to provide ... | I believe that taxation is theft. CMV. | 0 | 2014-03-18T15:48:19 | 297 | 2 | null |
This seems to stem down to "I feel that x" and generalizing it to the general population. Fact is most people would be desperately unhappy without close friends or relations. | I believe social interactions are overrated and a person could live just fine seeing people once a year or once in a decade or only when they go get their supplies. | 1 | 2016-08-03T19:46:07 | 40 | 2 | 1 |
Twitter is for following lots of people shallowly, Facebook is for following less people more deeply, Reddit is for following *ideas* deeply. It is incorrect to say that any one of those three solves the problem better - they all solve *different* problems. Through the imposition of the short-form post Twitter allows m... | Twitter is nearly unreadable and people mostly only use it for posting | 1 | 2015-02-09T23:35:38 | 38 | 62 | 1 |
High school love can be stupid. You have a brief conversation with a girl and you love her. And then the next month you can love someone else. But it isn't real. Lots people fall in love with the idea of being in love. And lots of people have no idea how to have sex in high school. hell lots of guys can't even locate... | Sex and relationships are best in high school | 0 | 2017-02-23T08:05:03 | 80 | 6 | 30 |
You seem to mix up stuff here. Can you be very privileged and still a good, hard-working person? Yes, absolutely. Does being a good, hard-working person mean you know everything about the world? Totally not. Can you use the term "privilige" to silence people for no reason? Totally. As a conclusion, this might be used ... | privileged people's opinions should be respected, not shuned | 0 | 2014-04-03T22:06:09 | 65 | 2 | null |
But you've also been working with the groups that are naturally facing resistance. Now you're with the "corporate savages", so after you've earned some pull (assuming you're good at your job), you can slowly start making changes. You can't start off too drastically either. It has to be subtle, and, most importantly, yo... | As an environmental engineer, I give up! PLEASE CMV! | 1 | 2015-04-24T00:57:26 | 366 | 2 | 1Δ |
Well, first off, it's important to note that New York is so big that there are separate parts, that are like different cities on their own. In my opinion, its hard to group Lower Manhattan with Harlem. First, it's filthy. There is trash everywhere, the water is polluted, and the air simply does not smell clean. [New Yo... | NYC sucks | 0 | 2015-07-16T00:07:24 | 328 | 4 | 1 |
Other people have gone over many of the advantages of chopsticks already but because I am quite a lazy/multitasking person I have an extra one: they are much better for one handed use than a fork. Say I want to send a text or browse reddit while eating; chopsticks have me sorted without risk of creating a huge mess fro... | Chopsticks are in no way superior to fork & knife. | 0 | 2015-05-22T05:59:37 | 431 | 3 | null |
I think the telling part of your post is that you don't know what the better solution is. And therein lies the problem, no one does. Everyone realises that democracy has it's problems, but other systems that have been tried just don't work as well. Churchill said "Democracy is the worst form of Government, except all t... | I think Democracy is bad method to elect politicians. | 0 | 2016-10-19T02:15:08 | 62 | 2 | null |
You are basically just saying "I don't like the taste of coffee, how can anyone like the taste of coffee?" Personally, I don't like the taste of tomatoes, I think they are slimey, gross and just repulsive. I don't think that anyone who likes tomatoes is "lying to themselves." Since you are saying that people like it b... | Coffee is overrated, the effects received are negligible and often a placebo, and people who say they like the taste are lying to themselves. | 0 | 2015-05-15T20:48:57 | 51 | 13 | null |
IT professional here. I'm going to hop in with a "nope" here. Most free AV tools are generally not terrible, but generally not great. If you don't know how to configure them to only update or scan at certain times, it's not the fault of the tool. Operator error cannot be traced to a dev. Also, a lot of malware masquera... | Most "free" antivirus software are nearly as bad as malware. | 1 | 2014-06-27T22:53:50 | 51 | 10 | 1 |
people in prison are there because they did something illegal and they have a debt to pay to society. Many would argue that they aren't there to be punished, but to be *rehabilitated and reintroduced* into society. Therefore, anything that could contribute to rehabilitation should not be taken away, otherwise we are wa... | I do not believe that prisons should have to accommodate the religious obligations of inmates | 0 | 2014-10-21T21:34:03 | 135 | 5 | null |
The reason it was put into law is, to stop the government from the defacto banning of firearm sales/transfers by just shutting down or defunding the background check system. It's not a incredible leap to think this could happen either, as the current administration has instructed the FBI to stop hearing background che... | If I can't buy a gun without a background check at a gunstore, I shouldn't be able to buy a gun without a background check at a gunstore/private purchase | 1 | 2016-10-24T17:34:05 | 364 | 172 | 7 |
If you look at their [stated purposes](http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml), you will see the primary goals are to maintain peace, develop friendly relations between countries, enable international cooperation on problems. The final part of their stated purpose is as follows: To be a centre for harm... | Saudi Arabia should be removed from the United Nations and stripped of all advantages that come with being part of the UN, due to their sexist governmental policies, harsh laws, and blatant human rights abuses | 1 | 2015-04-22T08:53:14 | 189 | 124 | 50Δ |
Under my system, NOT every person's vote will be equal, as people voting in areas with lower voter turnout will be able to vote with the weight of those who chose not to. and then you say Every person WILL have equal voting weight, regardless of whether or not they choose to vote. These two contradict each other. | I have created the ideal voting system to replace the Electoral Vote, and it isn't the Popular Vote | 0 | 2016-11-27T21:50:17 | 94 | 1 | 4 |
Again, these are "Why would I say X" questions, not "What gives you the right to say X" questions. | If you have to defend something as free speech, you're probably wrong | 1 | 2015-06-11T19:58:18 | 38 | 2 | 57 |
First, they are illegal. Therefore, to obtain these drugs, you have to break the law. You have to visit a drug dealer. Drug dealers are criminals. In other words, you have to lower yourself to the level of a criminal, a person who commits crimes, to do that. Why do people not feel deeply uncomfortable and ashamed that ... | Using illegal psychedelic drugs is unnatural, disturbing and shameful, and therefore, and I believe that anyone who does use them needs immediate mental help. | 1 | 2017-02-01T18:33:44 | 125 | 22 | 10 |
I don't think the problem you see really exists. Similarly, your idea that people should be self-sustainable is an old one. I worked in the food security area at a nonprofit and virtually all of the aid that I saw was aimed towards giving small farmers greater access to markets in which to sell their crops, to technolo... | I believe that the only way to end world hunger is to allow those suffering to starve. CMV. | 0 | 2013-07-23T03:57:36 | 59 | 9 | 11 |
Here's a graph of CO2 over time, before human intervention, taken from the Lake Vostok ice cores. It's not an extraordinarily clear graph, but it demonstrates that natural changes in CO2 are a much slower than the recent jump. http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/graphics/vostok.co2.gif For the largest jumps, from 290 to 1... | I believe that, though climate change exists, it is NOT caused by humans. CMV | 1 | 2013-07-15T07:09:58 | 71 | 18 | 1 |
It entirely depends on the way team/league is set up. A lot of kids are playing sports to get exposure to them, to help provide exercise, or to socialize, and are enrolled entirely through their parents. Many of these leagues aren't really about competition, and every adult watching is aware of that. I have a bunch of ... | Children who do not get 1st-3rd place DO NOT deserve a trophy for simply participating | 0 | 2015-06-25T22:08:22 | 244 | 5 | 2Δ |
1) I'm a small business owner. Trump's tax proposal will greatly benefit me and allow to to expand my business. His tax plans will hurt Americans' purchasing power which will ultimately hurt your business unless you're catering only to rich people. 2) Economy. My business has been booming since November of last year. ... | . I consider myself an independent but at this point never see a Democrat I could vote for. | 0 | 2017-06-10T23:45:05 | 91 | 3 | 1 |
there are plenty of features in biology, especially on a biochemical level, which we can't explain sufficiently through evolution. Which ones? Because I would say that pretty much everything can be explained through evolution. I'm just saying that we don't know how they got there. Well that's exactly what the scientifi... | Opposing intelligent design as a valid scientific theory shouldn't be the same thing as believing every biological feature definitely evolved. | 0 | 2017-05-15T12:30:03 | 42 | 6 | 95 |
My point is not about the place but that in the OP you talked about "the government" an d no you switch it to the country itself. | It's very disrespectful for immigrants to express strong political opinions directed towards the governing of whichever country they've immigrated to. | 1 | 2017-04-22T09:40:34 | 110 | 3 | 5 |
What about Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time, Undertale, etc.? They're a bit more niche, because the internet has let us specialize a lot, but I think the nostalgia marketing will be able to be more niche as well. | My Generation (currently in High School) will never have nostalgia due to Gen X and millenials pushing their own nostalgia on us | 1 | 2017-04-06T04:27:07 | 26 | 7 | 36 |
Are you by any chance familiar with the Culture series? It's a series of science-fiction books set in a post-scarcity vaguely anarchist utopia that explores some similar ideas. If we're talking about a future world where a more or less omniscient AI can exist, then we're likely talking about a world where money and hum... | Our wealth and professions should be governed by socialist/communist robots. | 1 | 2016-03-16T20:18:51 | 22 | 9 | 38 |
You sort of make some points about essay writing, but Grammar is extremely important for almost any career. Writing is an absolutely critical form of communication. I'd argue this is even more so the case with the rise of email. I'm a software engineer, but I spend *dramatically* more time day to day writing in English... | I believe that English classes should be removed from English-speaking countries. CMV | 1 | 2014-03-08T19:02:24 | 33 | 1 | 41Δ |
Is your view different from wikipedia's entry on "Argument from authority"? It describes it as "a common form of argument which leads to a logical fallacy **when misused**". It goes on to say: **Fallacious examples of using the appeal** include any appeal to authority used in the context of logical reasoning, and appe... | Inductive reasoning is the ultimate appeal to authority, and if one rejects any appeal to authority, one is rejecting inductive reasoning | 0 | 2014-07-03T06:46:52 | 56 | 1 | 41Δ |
Ok. To start off, "median" isn't the age when most people die. Median is the midpoint if we listed off age of death for the whole population. Mode is the age when most people die. You're correct that infant mortality screws with results. But so does child mortality. In fact, if your goal is to estimate how long you ha... | Life expectancy is a misleading statistic, it should use median age of death, not average age of death. | 1 | 2016-08-26T21:59:44 | 62 | 5 | 3 |
While I largely agree with you, I think the reality is a bit more complex than that, especially on a global scale. For example, in the US the Democratic party represents "the left", but they are actually more in line with some European right wing parties. Politics in the US has skewed to the right to such a degree that... | Right-wing politics is on the wrong side of history | 0 | 2017-04-19T16:28:50 | 79 | 3 | 9 |
I would like to start by genuinely thanking you for taking the time to design your buildings to be wheelchair accessible. I know you don't like it, but it is such a relief to visit buildings with easily accessible ramps. All I can offer is anecdotes. When my grandmother was 17, 50 years ago this year, she was in a frea... | Wheelchairs are bad, and we should not design our entire cities and public places around them (Frustrated architect here) | 1 | 2016-05-01T13:00:38 | 72 | 3 | 1 |
What makes a word "foreign" and not English? If you mean it's borrowed from another language, than how do you decide when it's English enough to pronounce like an English word? Do you pronounce the French word "renovation" like a native French speaker? Or do you say, "hey, I'm speaking English, I should pronounce this ... | Popular US/English pronunciations of foreign words, names, and phrases betray ignorance of the speaker as to the origin and meaning of those words. | 0 | 2014-07-09T21:43:19 | 123 | 3 | 6 |
I think you're guilty of the very thing you are deriding here, though: You're judging their arguments by your position in the world. Simply not believing that these people exist comes off as incredibly elitist. Have you ever even spoken with somebody from deep in the Rust belt? Have you met somebody from a WV mining to... | Supporters of Donald Trump are either completely divorced from reality or actively seeking the downfall of the United States. | 1 | 2016-07-26T08:26:25 | 311 | 4 | 18 |
It's not just bad/good that someone is predisposed too. Ones temper, intelligence, empathy, level-headedness, etc, are all influenced by genetics. Some people just have a harder/easier time behaving normally in society. Everyone has a different set of these qualities to deal with that are not because of bad/good parent... | I believe that parents are just as at fault for the actions of their children as the children are | 1 | 2016-08-03T20:11:21 | 40 | 1 | 7 |
If an ambulance saw a man dying on the street, and drove past and let him die, it would be murder. We know that poverty kills. [The super rich could end poverty four times over if they wanted to.](http://www.poverty.ac.uk/report-developing-countries-wealth/super-rich-could-end-poverty-four-times-over) I believe that an... | The 1% is unfairly hated | 0 | 2016-12-28T19:54:01 | 86 | 8 | 1 |
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